Comment on New Jersey's New Core Curriculum, An Interview With Education Commissioner Lucille Davy

P Bennett — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:43:43 GMT

Excellent interview.

Comment on New Jersey's New Core Curriculum, An Interview With Education Commissioner Lucille Davy

Dr. Robert J. Maderia Sr — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:46:01 GMT

I applaud and admire Commissioner Davy for her orientation of the state's core
curriculum towards real world learning!

I would like to suggest more emphasis be placed on teaching how to learn the
meaning and understanding of this core
curriculum(i.e., Less traditional type teaching oriented towards a standardized
testing and more conceptual teaching to
a discipline's syllabus). This way the three true forms of knowledge (i.e., the
Declarative, Associated, and Procedural
knowledge)would be acquired and students
would have the skills to graduate onto
the next levels!

I am an Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and
Physiology and find that the highest percentage of my incoming students lack
independant study skills. They appear not to seek the meaning or understanding
of this challenging discipline,but just
enough associated knowledge(i.e., dis-connected information),with expectations
of high grade averages that don't match their meaning and understanding.

I am well versed in "Conceptual Teaching
Techniques for Diversity in Learning".
However, at the collegiate level, time
alloted and amount of detail taught do
not always articulate. Students need to come to a college class prepared with strong independent study skills, as well
as the ability to acquire meaning and understanding from all three types of knowledge of rigorous scholarship!

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Comment on New Jersey's New Core Curriculum, An Interview With Education Commissioner Lucille Davy

Comment on New Jersey's New Core Curriculum, An Interview With Education Commissioner Lucille Davy